Columbia History of Music, Volume I

Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume I
Period I. To the opening of the seventeenth Century
Various performers
Columbia (Great Britain) set 252 [78rpm x8, 25cm]
Columbia (USA) set M 231 [78rpm x8, 25cm]

Contents:

    This is a set of eight released 78rpm:
  1. Columbia (Great Britain) 5710 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 1: Plainsong
  2. Columbia (Great Britain) 5711 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 2: Dufay – Anonymous – Palestrina
  3. Columbia (Great Britain) 5712 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 3: Palestrina – Byrd
  4. Columbia (Great Britain) 5713 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 4: Bull – Farnaby
  5. Columbia (Great Britain) 5714 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 5: Norcombe – Weelkes
  6. Columbia (Great Britain) 5715 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 6: Dowland – Anonymous (13th c.)
  7. Columbia (Great Britain) 5716 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 7: Pilkington – Morley
  8. Columbia (Great Britain) 5717 [78rpm, 25cm] Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume one, rec. 8: Weelkes – Gibbons

Performers, recording site and date:
See links above

Playing time: ??' ??"

Date of release:
1930

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): -572 (May 1930)

Comments:
Information from owned Volume one.
This recording is a part of a collection edited by Percy Scholes. Each Volume (5 in total) contains eight 10" (78rpm) discs, accompanied by a 50 pages illustrated booklet in an album.

Volume II:

Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, Volume II
Baroque
Various performers
Columbia (Great Britain) set 253 [78rpm x8, 25cm]

And another large series on Columbia from this era:

Anthology of English Church Music, vol. I & II
Various Choirs & performers
Columbia (UK) LB 91/95, LX 1283/1289 & LX 1379/1390 [78rpm x5, 25cm + x19, 30 cm]

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Pierre-F. Roberge